I watched this thing live yesterday and, even after taking some Tums and Dramamine, still felt nauseous. I knew it would be lies but, but holy guacamole, I thought I was looking at the Geico commercial with Pinocchio. This boy king is not only a joke but a great embarrassment to this country. He is qualified to be Mayor of D.C. But other than that, nada. Let’s look at lies then:

And now. Read some of the comments here. Two that jumped up are this:
“”A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” ~ Thomas Jefferson “A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.” -G. Gordon

and this:
“If you don’t like your Democrat senator you don’t have to keep him/her. Vote them out. Liars all.”

The biggest lie of all has always been that if you don’t agree with ObamaCare and the GOP trying to repeal ObamaCare means they don’t want you to have health insurance. If I remember correctly, health insurance existed BEFORE ObamaCare. At last glance, there are still 40 million uninsured Americans that this law (I’m choking here) was aimed to resolve, except that everyone else got sucked in like a bad side affect. My, and most other entities, have open enrollment for two weeks, in which time you decide your plan so that it is ready BY THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR. ObamaCare has open enrollment for 6 months (actually, you can sign up all year long) but STILL left out 40 million uninsured. The government just made 4 BILLION dollars off the uninsured and they still have no health insurance. Boy, this is working out great!

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Naturally, I’m deeply skeptical of the number put forth yesterday, as they’ve shown all along an inability to put forth *any* kind of unqualified number – suddenly, they’ve learned to count?

Ultimately, the real numbers will trickle out – it may take a change of administration, as this one has proven itself to be “transparent” only insofar as their actions to obscure, cloud, fuzz, obstruct, and otherwise render meaningless anything that might do them political harm.

But, perhaps someday, we’ll see actually meaningful numbers – and the most important one will be “How much did all this cost?” There’s no free lunch – especially when the government is involved. Will we find we’re spending $100k to provide $10,000 worth of insurance? Or is that too optimistic a figure?

It’d be really easy to just put everyone in the country on Medicaid “free” for the asking – and if we did that, someone would proclaim it a “victory.” Of course, when we discover that we can no longer make payments on our national debt, or fail to meet Social Security obligations, well, that’s someone else’s fault.

Point being, the number of enrollees is only a part of the equation – what are the costs? And what are the opportunity costs? What could we have done had we *not* committed ourselves to such a horrible and shaky premise?

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – I’m no ideologue, and was/am all for meaningful healthcare reform. What we’ve done is taken the worst of a broken system and doubled-down on it. We’ve improved access for a few, and made it more expensive and less obtainable for far more. It’s an expensive and unsustainable house of cards, and it will someday come crashing down as it collapses under its own weight.

Written by ACTivist about 1 year ago.

“It’s an expensive and unsustainable house of cards, and it will someday come crashing down as it collapses under its own weight.”

House of cards is okay but look beyond it. Healthcare has become another ENTITLEMENT program. Now healthcare becomes a townhouse with the other entitlement townhouses. Instead of under it’s own weight, it will be tied in with the other programs. Once this country goes into default, the row of townhouses will burn just like the building in Texas and they will all end up ash instantly.

Well, I guess this is no April Fool’s joke. Dept. of State Inspector General says they are unable to account in Department financial records for $6 billion for payment to contractors over the last six years. $6 billion?!!!! My Lord, it was not just the Ambassador to Libya that Hillary’s shift lost!

Written by Eric the half a troll about 11 months ago.

Wow, Wolv, that is a lot of money! It’s about 2/3 the amount Brenner lost track of at the CIA! Let’s hope those documents are located, eh? Wouldn’t want that kind of money floating around Iraq and Afghanistan unaccounted for, eh?

From ABC News 8 (wric.com) 3 & 4 April 2014: The Louisa County (VA) Sheriff’s Office is investigating a sexting ring involving more than 100 local teens ranging from age 14 to 17. It appears that the girls having been sending nude photos of themselves to boys, and the boys are putting the photos on Instagram. The estimate is more than 1000 photos, most of them sexually explicit.

Isn’t that so adorable? It seems that we have a whole bunch of junior Anthony Weiner types amongst us. One cannot help but be impressed by the state of American culture in the so-called post-modern era and how efficiently we pass our adult slime down to our kids.

Written by Eric the half a troll about 11 months ago.

“One cannot help but be impressed by the state of American culture in the so-called post-modern era and how efficiently we pass our adult slime down to our kids.”

In September 2001, new SecDef Rumsfeld announced that $2.3 trillion was unaccounted for at the Department of Defense per their 1999 fiscal reports. Looks like Bill’s administration outdid Obama-Hillary in the fiscal negligence department. And 15 April is fast approaching. Smile, smile, smile, suckers!

Eric — Two days and you are still unable to identify the person involved? Faker. Heh, heh, I actually knew the man personally back in the day. I also know that he suffered a great deal from all kinds of criticism in that CPA post, including the funds unaccounted for. In fact he was grilled by the Congress and insulted in print by Newt Gingrich over that and other issues. Personally, I think that his reputation suffered more than enough, especially given the almost impossible task he was assigned. I think it only fair that we should run Hillary through that same public media and Congressional gauntlet to explain losing $6 billion of our tax money. Don’t you agree?

J’accuse! Bring Hillary before the House of Representatives to explain $6 billion in lost contractor funds during her tenure and the failure to press POTUS to appoint a State Inspector General during that period.